New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-31
THE CITY'S PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
REPORT OF THE STATE CHARITIES AID ASSOCIATION
ABUSES AND NEEDED REFORMS.

REPORT OF THE STATE CHARITIES AID ASSOCIATION
ABUSES AND NEEDED REFORMS.
The fourteenth annual report of the NewYork County
Visiting Committee of the State Charities Aid Association
presents interesting facts In relation to the public
institutions OF the city. At the tune the report was made
there inmates in the public and charitable
institutions Of the city. During the last year some i'm
provements long recommended By this committee were
made among them the employment Of trained nurses
IN the pavilion for tho female insane Bellevue Hospital
the Of the old Riverside Hospital into homo
for the OF the Charity Hospital Training School,
and tho opening OF special diet kitchen In the Chdrens
Hospital, Randall's Island.
The committee crtcises the delay the part of the
Commissioners of Charities and Correction In fitting up
the Reception Hospital In Harlem for the east side Of the
city. The appropriation was made and tho building
rented year hut the hospital not yet ready
when the report made up. Attention Is called TO the
fact that the Chldrens Hospital Randas Island has
to great extent been filled up with cases of eye and
skin diseases sent from private charitable instr
tuons in the city and caused by overcrowding and bad
In Bellevue Hospital, it is stated steps have been
taken toward carrying ont the plan for improving the
nursing Of tho male wards by training the 0TdSs
recommended by the committee. The Reception
arranged the helpers and other attendants sleeping In
the wards The laundry arrangements for this and Belle
vue Hospital are pronounced bad 200 ,.,,.,., %
During the there 81 1872 persons admitted 10
the Blackwefls Island workhouse One-half OF these
were recOuittalS, which cent put uOWn
FOUNDERS chargeablo to the foreign-born population
The committee says that the practice OF committing
The lack Of sufficient keepers and the failure keep the
Inmates employed are said to be defects In the manage
Speaking Of the Aimshouse and its 1900 inmates the
committee says:
overcrowdng sofrequenty reported has
the wards were ed beyond their capacity Many
Only All,
lie
dried the foot Of the beds The known the
So that ers andns
az yet IS the men are turned out Of their wards sary
have alternative except TO stay ont OF doors In cold
permitted them. The clothing Of the Also is
jnrns that She died within few hours
sI iS mp sHa IS M
no one was seriously Injured During the large pgr
have been made but the roof is stin leaky.
In the Lunatc Asylum and the Asy for the Insane
the crowding Of the patients is continually on the III
though the commit reported the asylums as
Overcrowded In previous years. The Charity Commits
patients on the farm purchased on Long Island
fants Hospital, In which nearly onehaf the baby In
mates last died. Is said 10 have paid nurses In some
caes Ignorant OF the proper diet and management OF
After speaking OF o number OF needed improvements
the committee says:
The influence of the wOrkhouse is widely felt through
out all the Institutions that may be well TO speak more at
of the reforms required there With many abores
always at hand the Department ought to be able 10 keep
part OF the slandthe grounds the roads the docks
the budngsin perfect order yet for lack OF sufficient
supervision the workmen left idle and the work not
DONE done very badly Small repairs neglected for
weeks sometimes for months because chances that
pssterer painter, carpenter. the may
be- has been committed. II The Department hal In its
employ o certain number OF efficient mechanics who could
direct and instruct the generally lazy
nom the Work house these would be benefited the ns
tutions would all be improved and In the long would
probably economical than the nefcc tive
system
In conclusion the committee urgently need
Of visitors and bcgs all who interested
assist in finding those willing 10 undertake th3 important
Names OF persons should
tary at Nc. 81 University place.